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36An Infused Dialogue, Part 2: The Power of Love Without ObjectivityJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (1): 15-26. 2016.Human desire usually has an object of longing or hope. The more intense the desire, the more singularly prominent its object. Sides, after all, means “heavenly body.” When people desire, they want, crave, and even covet the desired, whether the desired is ice cream, a professorship, or another’s body. What is intensely desired, even if it is not heavenly, has the status of an object with exceptional and immediate meaning and draw. When simple desire finds satisfaction, the desired’s attraction w…Read more
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6Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities (review)Isis 101 271-272. 2010.
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14IntroductionHypatia 3 (1): 1-4. 1988.An overview of the essays in the second issue of the special edition of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy devoted to feminism and science.
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106Fleshing Gender, Sexing the Body: Refiguring the Sex/Gender DistinctionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 35 (S1): 53-71. 1997.
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79Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of IgnoranceHypatia 19 (1): 194-232. 2004.Lay understanding and scientific accounts of female sexuality and orgasm provide a fertile site for demonstrating the importance of including epistemologies of ignorance within feminist epistemologies. Ignorance is not a simple lack. It is often constructed, maintained, and disseminated and is linked to issues of cognitive authority, doubt, trust, silencing, and uncertainty. Studying both feminist and nonfeminist understandings of female orgasm reveals practices that suppress or erase bodies of …Read more
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283Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (edited book)State Univ of New York Pr. 2007.Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.
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20A roundtable on feminism and philosophy in the mid-1990s: Taking stockMetaphilosophy 27 (1-2): 218-221. 1996.
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206Introduction: Feminist epistemologies of ignoranceHypatia 21 (3): 1-19. 2006.This essay aims to clarify the value of developing systematic studies of ignorance as a component of any robust theory of knowledge. The author employs feminist efforts to recover and create knowledge of women's bodies in the contemporary women's health movement as a case study for cataloging different types of ignorance and shedding light on the nature of their production. She also helps us understand the ways resistance movements can be a helpful site for understanding how to identify, critiqu…Read more
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96Embedding philosophers in the practices of science: bringing humanities to the sciencesSynthese 190 (11): 1955-1973. 2013.The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States, like many other funding agencies all over the globe, has made large investments in interdisciplinary research in the sciences and engineering, arguing that interdisciplinary research is an essential resource for addressing emerging problems, resulting in important social benefits. Using NSF as a case study for problem that might be relevant in other contexts as well, I argue that the NSF itself poses a significant barrier to such resear…Read more
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36What Is Feminist Philosophy?In George Yancey (ed.), Philosophy in Multiple Voices, . pp. 21--21. 2007.
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51Climate change and human rightsIn Thomas Cushman (ed.), Handbook of human rights, Routledge. pp. 410. 2012.
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84The Radical Future of Feminist EmpiricismHypatia 7 (1): 100-114. 1992.I argue that Nelson's feminist transformation of empiricism provides the basis of a dialogue across three currently competing feminist epistemologies: feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theories, and postmodern feminism, a dialogue that will result in a dissolution of the apparent tensions between these epistemologies and provide an epistemology with the openness and fluidity needed to embrace the concerns of feminists.
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55Feminist Perspectives on ScienceHypatia 3 (1). 1988.In this issue of Hypatia there is a consensus that science is not value-neutral and that cultural/political concerns enter into the epistemology, methodology and conclusions of scientific theory and practice. In future dialogues the question that needs to be further addressed is the precise role political concerns should play in the formulation of a feminist theory and practice of science.
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56Fleshing Gender, Sexing the Body: Refiguring the Sex/gender DistinctionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 35 (S1): 53-71. 1997.
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141The values of science: Empiricism from a feminist perspectiveSynthese 104 (3). 1995.This essay delineates the contributions of feminist critiques of science to contemporary reconstructions of empiricism. I argue that three central tenets arise from feminist attention to the dynamics of gender and oppression in the theories and methods of science: 1) a rejection of the science/politics dichotomy; 2) an acknowledgement of the epistemic import of subjective components of knowledge; and 3) a reconfiguration of the subject of knowledge. These three tenets are illustrated and support…Read more
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21An Infused Dialogue, Part 1: Borders, Fusions, InfluenceJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (1): 1-14. 2016.We begin at the site of borders, the demarcations between us, between: my body and your body, humans and nonhuman animals, habits of thought and institutional structures, nature and culture, subject and object. We find ourselves between the devil and the deep blue sea. Differences, distinctions, and borders are key to knowing and acting responsibly. Yet we are “held captive” by particular habits of understanding that police such borders with unbecoming fervor. We desire to trouble these borders …Read more
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30The Hidden Structure of Quine’s Attack on AnalyticitySouthern Journal of Philosophy 20 (2): 257-262. 1982.
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66Revaluing science: starting from the practices of womenIn Lynn Hankinson Nelson & Jack Nelson (eds.), Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, . pp. 17--35. 1996.
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107Leading with ethics, aiming for policy: new opportunities for philosophy of scienceSynthese 177 (3). 2010.The goal of this paper is to articulate and advocate for an enhanced role for philosophers of science in the domain of science policy as well as within the science curriculum. I argue that philosophy of science as a field can learn from the successes as well as the mistakes of bioethics and begin to develop a new model that includes robust contributions to the science classroom, research collaborations with scientists, and a role for public philosophy through involvement in science policy develo…Read more
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19Engendering Rationalities (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2001.Cutting edge feminist investigations of rationality
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
General Philosophy of Science |